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Touchback

Genre
Drama
Rating
PG-13
Released
13 April, 2012

In American football, a touchback is a ruling which is made and signaled by an official when the ball becomes dead on or behind a team's own goal line and the opposing team gave the ball the momentum, or impetus, to travel over or across the goal line. Since the 2018 season, touchbacks have also been awarded in college football on kickoffs that end in a fair catch by the receiving team between its own 25-yard line and goal line. Such impetus may be imparted by a kick, pass, fumble, or in certain instances by batting the ball. A touchback is not a play, but a result of events that may occur during a play. A touchback is the opposite of a safety with regard to impetus since a safety is scored when the ball becomes dead in a team's end zone after that team — the team whose end zone it is — caused the ball to cross the goal line. The result of a touchback is that the team receiving possession of the ball starts on their own 20- or 25-yard line, depending on the situation.

About Touchback

A man gets the unique opportunity to revisit his high school football career and the injury that ended everything fifteen years ago. Don Handfield wrote and directed the film.

Achievement of Touchback

The film was mainly shot in Michigan, USA. The movie was filmed in two months. 

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Latest information about Touchback updated on July 28 2021.